National Club T20 Quarter-Final
Posted by on 22 August 2014
PTCC's NatWest National Club T20 Quarter-Final is this Sunday (24 August) away at Wanstead CC) from 1pm.
Where: Wanstead and Snaresbrook Cricket Club host Peterborough Town CC at their Overton Drive ground, Wanstead, London, E11 2LW - location/map details here
Weather forecast is good, mostly cloud, highs 18°C.
Full NatWest Club t20 quarter-final draw - cct20.play-cricket.com
Follow @pborotowncc on Twitter and @PTAlanSwann should be covering it for the Peterborough Telegraph.
How we got there: After retaining the Northants title, it was off to East Midlands Finals day again last Sunday (24 August - at the second attempt)...
Swanny's report: "Some brutal hitting by professional Paul McMahon saw Town to a 30-run semi-final victory over Derbyshire champions Ockbrook & Borrowash and then a remarkable six-wicket win over the star-studded West Indian Cavaliers side in the final, the huge favourites to add this crown to their National 45-over title from last year.
McMahon was brilliant in the semi-final finishing unbeaten on 85 from 37 balls, but was even better in the final against far superior bowlers, finishing on 95 not out, an innings that included six sixes and nine fours and occupied just 51 balls.
Town had done well to restrict Cavaliers to 166, but slumped to 18-3 in reply, losing star batsman Asim Butt in controversial fashion to the second ball of the innings.
McMahon adopted a necessarily cautious approach at the start, but first skipper Lewis Bruce helped him add 49 for the fourth wicket and then 19 year-old Marcus Howard joined him to add a superb unbroken 103 for the fifth wicket.
The glory of hitting the winning runs fell to Howard who batted with great composure to finish on 25 not out."
Read Alan Swann's full report from East Midlands Finals day at peterboroughtoday.co.uk
East Midlands Final scores:
West Indian Cavaliers
U. Afzaal c M. Milner b Bruce 48
G. Hussain c Dawborn b Bruce 34
A. Patel b Kendall 3
B. Shafayat c Clarke b Kendall 6
A. Thomas c French b Kendall 8
A. Yaqoob b Bruce 1
P. Gada b Sayer 25
P. Sidhu b Dawborn 6
K. Shaffique c Howard b Dawborn 2
S. Mushtaq b Dawborn 22
D. Williams not out 0
Extras 11
TOTAL 166
Bowling: D. Sayer 4-0-40-1; J. Dawborn 3.5-0-33-3; P. McMahon 4-0-30-0; L. Bruce 4-0-24-3; R. Kendall 4-0-32-3.
Peterborough Town
A. Butt c Thomas b Patel 0
D. Clarke c Williamson b Hussain 8
C. French b Patel 8
P. McMahon not out 95
L. Bruce c Patel b Saqlain 11
M. Howard not out 25
Extras 23
TOTAL (4 wkts) 170
Bowling: A. Patel 4-0-33-2; G. Hussain 2-0-7-0; S. Mushtaq 4-0-40-1; K. Shaffique 3.2-0-37-0; U. Afzaal 2-0-21-0; B. Shafayat 3-0-23-0.
All support at Wanstead welcomed.
Third time lucky...
